Sam McCrory

Sam McCrory (22 March 1965-) was an Ulster Defense Association paramilitary leader during The Troubles.

Biography
Sam McCrory was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on 22 March 1965, and he formed a racist skinhead gang with Johnny Adair and Jackie Thompson as a youth, before joining the Ulster Defense Association. McCrory executed a British Army agent named Francisco Notarantonio on 9 October 1987 and took part in the July 1992 attempt on the lives of Provisional IRA leaders Brian Gillen and Martin Lynch. He was arrested and received a long prison sentence at the Maze Prison, leading the UDA's prison gang. McCrory would later move to Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, leaving the violence behind to become a gay rights activist.